Surveys from Europe show that most hearing aid users experience increased quality of life. The surveys also found that people who use hearing aids tend to be less depressed, less exhausted in the evenings and that they sleep better than non-users (Source: www.hear-it.org)
The publication of the European health report every three years is an opportunity to focus on progress towards genuine health and well-being for all
Roger Bouillon, Stig Slordahl, Maria M Nogueria, Kirsten Steinhausen, Isabel Varela-Nieto, Giovanni Pacini, Martin Röllinghoff, Josef Syka
The Lancet, October 2015
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Tomas Lindahl (Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, UK), Paul Modrich (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA) and Aziz Sancar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA) “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”
More than 10 % of children born with the virus cytomegalovirus (CMV) suffer from permanent hearing loss. The degree of hearing loss depends on the symptoms
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura “for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites” and the other half to Youyou Tu “for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria”
The last issue of the EIP on AHA newsletter includes an interview with Dr. Teresa Chavarría Giménez, Coordinator of JA-CHRODIS, a spotlight on EIP-AHA Action Group A2 – Fall prevention, information on European funding available in support of the EIP on AHA, and much more contents